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Johnson Report holds key to competition

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... institution borrowing offshore retail deposits which they on-lend in Australia. On the advice side, the Future of Financial Advice reforms will help increase market concentration - and in turn, also boost competition, and 60 per cent believe the recommendations ...

Australians willing to pay just $300 for advice

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
The average Australian believes financial advice should cost just $300 upfront - almost 10 times less what planners say is the break-even cost of providing full advice, and a figure planners are calling "completely unrealistic". New research from Investment ...

AFA promotes female advisers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... recognises the unique contribution female advisers make to their clients, will encourage more women to enter the financial advice industry."

AFA pledges support for advice campaign

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... to raise $500,000 by the end of the conference to fund a campaign designed to highlight the benefits of good financial advice. Ron Lambert, a financial adviser and an AFA member, made the announcement and said the AFA needs between $2.5 million to $5 ...

Advisers must fight for the future, not the past: AFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... Peter Daly, chief executive of AFS. Announcing the AFA is moving centre stage in the policy battles over consumer financial advice, the panel, however, lamented the fight over commissions was damaging. "We know the best thing is to get people in front ...

Best financial advice tweet wins iPhone

Financial advisers will be unleashing their inner wordsmith at a conference that starts this weekend, with the chance to win an iPhone and the bragging rights of saying something profound (or witty) in less than 140 characters. This year, the Association ...

Snowball raises $18m through share placement

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... fundamentally changed, therefore, we need a different response to the new discerning consumer otherwise, the financial advice industry is going to miss out on a great deal of new business."

Investors demand 'transactional' advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... in SMSFs that requires a distinct transactional approach from advisers. That is, rather than seek a holistic financial advice, many trustees are taking self-diagnostic tests to find out which areas of their finance they need advice on. "Self-diagnosis ...

Advice 'opt in' reforms to dictate platform choice

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... month, revealing details on who among financial advisers are just digesting the key elements of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms and those that are already taking action. Among their key findings is that the market share of platforms will ...

SuperSA offers members IFFP services

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... the service back in early September. With one IFFP planner on site, Super SA members have the ability to access financial advice on a fee-for-service basis. So far they have been doing so enthusiastically, with two to three appointments being made per ...